From: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 14:00:08 +0800
To: Jim Choate <cypherpunks@EINSTEIN.ssz.com (Cypherpunks Distributed Remailer)
Subject: Re: IP: Clinton Wants Loophole In U.S. Free Speech Closed (fwd)
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At 10:18 AM 11/11/98 -0600, Jim Choate wrote:
>Read the 10th again you don't understand what it is saying. 
>
>It *specificaly*[sic] says that unless the Constitution assigns it to the feds
>*or* prohibits it then the states are *exactly* the ones that are able to do
>what Congress is prohibited from doing. The states are limited by their
>own consititions[sic] which are guaranteed to be representative in nature.
>The states absolutely have the right to regulate gun laws
....
>State regulation on speech, press, etc. are also completely constitutional

The 14th supersedes this somewhat; states can't violate 
federal-constitutional rights in ways that they could before it
when they had the 10th to permit them.

> If you don't like your states laws move to one you do like.
>
>That's what it means to live in a democracy, freedom of choice - not
>homogeneity (on this point ol' Alex was wrong, wrong, wrong).

Some freedom of choice - if you don't like what the government forces 
on you, move.  "Democracy" means that if 50% of the people
vote for a system like that, you're stuck with it.
Now, it's certainly better than systems like serfdom or Sovietism,
where you weren't allowed to move either, and it's also better
to have non-homogeneity available nearby.
				Thanks! 
					Bill
Bill Stewart, bill.stewart@pobox.com
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